You got a mail similar to this? and clicked?
Googleleadservices.com is a malicious browser redirect virus which created to take effect on the target computer. This redirect virus is not the same as the legit search engine web like Google and Bing. It used to pretend as a useful and good search engine. When you are being redirected to this fake website, you may see that nothing looks differently from its fake screen. Everything seems to be good before you use it to search your favorites. Once this virus gets into your computer, it will immediately show its ability. Once infected, it will take the whole control of your online actions and then redirect you to Googleleadservices.com right away. Then it will change your default home page and search engine automatically without your approval. You don’t have any way to change these settings back unless you remove the virus from the compromised computer. Besides, if you do the research on the fake web, you may find that all the provided links are nothing related to your key words, but kinds of unknown things and malicious website links. In addition, lots of pop-ups and commercial ads will display on your web screen to stop you from doing anything normally. Thus, you should know that removing this fake website is the most urgent task as soon as you see it on your computer.
Googleleadservices.com Virus can get into your computer with the help of third party applications. That is why you know nothing about this virus until it is found. This infection used to infect your computer through downloading freeware, visiting suspicious websites or links, reading or responding spam emails as well as its attachments and installing unsafe programs on your computer. Once infected, you will get kinds of fake alerts telling you about the threat on the compromised computer. But when you do a full scan on the computer, nothing malicious is founded except kinds of caches and unless files. Furthermore, this malicious virus can bring into other computer threats like Trojan horse, Adware and malware, spyware as well as other infections into your system. As a result, your computer will work more and more slowly comparing to before it was not infected. If you want to get your computer back to normal again, you’d better remove Googleleadservices.com virus from your infected computer as early as you can.
Basic Symptoms and Potential Risks of Googleleadservices.com Infection
1. It can be added to Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome browsers without your notification.
2. You are rerouted to some unknown sponsored websites that you have never seen before when you surfing online.
3. You can get a bunch of popup ads show on the webpage which you are browsing.
4. It can be installed on your computer slightly.
5. This browser hijacker can introduce various infections and unwanted programs onto your system,
6. It can investigate your browsing behavior and gather your input information online.
7. It is also responsible for collecting computer user’s private information like IP address and online traces for unethical using of online marketing.
Note: If one of symptoms mentioned above is found in your computer, then you must know that your computer is being attacked by the browser hijacker. Since the browser hijacker is so dangerous, once your computer is infected, you should take actions to delete the hijacker. If you are not a computer expert, in case you lose your important data or damage your system, please welcome to contact Yoocare/Yoosecurity Online Expert for help now!
Manual Removal Guide:
Googleleadservices.com Hijacker hijacks your default browser to redirect your web search results and modifies your default homepage and browser settings. Manual removal is the most effective way to completely uninstall it from an infected computer’s operating system, for the season that this hijacker is so cunning and dangerous, antivirus programs cannot get rid of it permanently. Here are the manual guides for users to remove the annoying hijacker.
1. Clean Add-ons and Extensions
* Internet Explorer:
(1). Click Tools in the Menu bar and then click Internet Options
(2). Click Programs tab, click Manage add-ons and disable the dubious add-ons
* Firefox:
(1). Click Tools in the Menu bar and then click Add-ons
(2). Click Extensions, select the related browser add-ons and click Disable
* Google Chrome:
(1). Click Customize and control Google Chrome button → Tools → Extensions
(2). Disable the extensions of this virus
2. End Relevant Processes
(1). Press Ctrl+Shift+Esc together to pop up Windows Task Manager, click Processes tab
*For Win 8 Users:
Click More details when you see the Task Manager box
And then click Details tab
(2). Find out and end this hijacker’s processes
3. Show Hidden Files
(1). Click on Start button and then on Control Panel
(2). Click on Appearance and Personalization
(3). Click on Folder Options
(4). Click on the View tab in the Folder Options window
(5). Choose Show hidden files, folders, and drives under the Hidden files and folders category
(6). Click OK at the bottom of the Folder Options window
*For Win 8 Users:
Press Win+E together to open Computer window, click View and then click Options
Click View tab in the Folder Options window, choose Show hidden files, folders, and drives under the Hidden files and folders category
4. Delete Relevant Registry Entries and Files
(1). Delete the registry entries related to this browser hijacker through Registry Editor Press Win+R to bring up the Run window, type “regedit” and click “OK”
While the Registry Editor is open, search and delete its registry entries
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\[RANDOM CHARACTERS].exe HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run ‘Random’ HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Random HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings “CertificateRevocation” =Random
(2). Find out and remove the associated files
%AllUsersProfile%\random.exe %AppData%\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Templates\random.exe %AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\~random %AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\.dll HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Random “.exe”
Conclusion
Googleleadservices.com virus is a malicious and pesky browser hijacker virus which can penetrate into your computer secretly without your attention. Commonly, this virus can be bundled with the “free” software downloads, unsafe websites, spam emails and junk email attachments as well as suspicious pop-ups, ads, links. Hence, you should be very careful when browse online. Once infected, this virus has the ability to spy your browsing habits and history and then collect your sensitive information such user names, IP address, financial details. In short, Googleleadservices.com virus is a completely unwanted and bad application which should be removed without any hesitation as soon as it is detected. So far, only manual removal can help you remove this virus completely and permanently. If you don’t how to do, please contact YooCare Online Expert for further assistance right now!
Suggestion: The above manual removal is quite dangerous and complicated, which needs sufficient professional skills. Therefore, only computer users with rich computer knowledge are recommended to implement the process because any errors including deleting important system files and registry entries will crash your computer system.
